04.05.2016 12:32, Peter Wu wrote:
> Avoid possible connection drops on Linux (when tcp_syncookies is
> disabled) or fallbacks to SYN cookies with the following kernel warning:
> 
>     TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 1234. Sending 
> cookies.  Check SNMP counters.
> 
> Since Linux 4.4 (ef547f2ac16b "tcp: remove max_qlen_log"), a backlog of
> zero is really treated as the "queue length for completely established
> sockets waiting to be accepted" (listen(2)). This is apparently a valid
> interpretation of an "implementation-defined minimum value" for a
> backlog value of 0 (listen(3p)). Previous kernels would use 8 as
> minimum value, but that is no longer the case.

Applied to -trivial, thanks!

/mjt

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